What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Joseph K]

Giving Stravinsky a night off and picking up where I left off with the EMI Beethoven Collectors' Edition box: disk 13, comprising piano sonatas 8, 9, 10 and 11 - Eric Heidsieck.

Just now getting round to no. 11.

[jayne lee wilson]

Lovely playing on this, my current ambient choice (better than the daylong garden parties booming away nearby...)....


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Cet élément a bien été ajouté / retiré de vos favoris.Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies

Munich Radio Orchestra, Henry Raudales

• Released on 04/06/2021 by BR-Klassik
• QOBUZ 24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo

[Joseph K]

Haydn - string quartet in E flat op. 64 no. 6

[cloughie]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (András Schiff), streamable in full, with the 1st, on QOBUZ from today. Brahms with all the lightness of spirit and dance it was composed with, not the heavy stodge that all too often has weighed it down. Schoenberg was right, Brahms was, indeed, "a great progressive".

Now available on download from Presto from £12.68

On a quick hearing the divine third movement of no 2 sounds a little quick - Julius Katchen with Kenneth Heath on cello (LSO Ferencsik) got it right for me!

[BBMmk2]

Carrying on with my theme this week of recordings celebrating the artistry of Martha Argerich.

The Lugano Recordings
CD 15
Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit
(Martha Argerich, piano)
La Valse, for two pianos(arr. Ravel)
(Martha Argerich, Sergio Tiempo, pianists)
Ma Mére l’Oye, (for piano, four hands)
(Martha Argerich, Alexander Mogilevsky, pianists)
Piano Concerto in G major
(Martha Argerich, piano
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Vedirnikov)
Debussy
Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune
(Stephen Kovacevich, Martha Argerich, pianists)
CD 16
Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op.45
(Martha Argerich, Nelson Goerner, pianists)
Suite No.1 for Two Pianos in G minor, Op.5 “Fantasie-Tableaux”
(Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein, pianists)
Suite No.2, for Two Pianos, in C major, Op.17
(Martha Argerich, Gabriela Montero, pianists)
CD 17
Prokofiev
Symphony No.1 in D major, Op.25 “Classical”
(Martha Argerich, Yefim Bronfman, pianists)
Violin Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.94 bis
(Renaud Capuçon, violin, Martha Argerich, piano)
Rachmaninov
6 Morceaux, Op.11
(Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein, pianists)

[Bryn]

Now available on download from Presto from £12.68

On a quick hearing the divine third movement of no 2 sounds a little quick - Julius Katchen with Kenneth Heath on cello (LSO Ferencsik) got it right for me!

I guess that comes from Schiff observing Brahms's metronome marking in the autograph score.

[cloughie]

I guess that comes from Schiff observing Brahms's metronome marking in the autograph score.

Very probably but such a shame to rush a beautiful sound!

[Petrushka]

Scott Joplin: 'The Easy Winners'
Itzhak Perlman (violin), Andre Previn (piano)

Disc 35 from the Warner Andre Previn box

[Bryn]

Very probably but such a shame to rush a beautiful sound!

Maybe, if such occurred, but here, I find the tempo quite apposite, given the instrumental forces, (far closer to those with which Brahms was familiar), employed.

[Richard Barrett]

I'm going to listen to this one later, if I can put my aversion to the sound of Brahms on hold... I was just listening to a new selection of Monteverdi madrigals on Glossa under the title "Lagrime d'amante", by the Compagnia dei Madrigali, currently I would say my favourite group in this kind of repertoire. Some of my favourite madrigals too.

[ostuni]

Yes, I've only heard a few tracks so far, but they all seem really excellent. Sad footnote: the recording is dedicated to the memory of their bass, Daniele Carnovich, who died last year (and sings on the majority of the tracks).

[cloughie]

Maybe, if such occurred, but here, I find the tempo quite apposite, given the instrumental forces, (far closer to those with which Brahms was familiar), employed.

Allegedly!

[Bryn]

Allegedly!

A silly remark. The evidence is overwhelming. Much of the instrument technology in common use today had not even been developed in Brahm's day.

[Alison]

https://youtu.be/9oLa_0JlH38

Found this a very interesting conversation, including comments on the new Brahms recording.

[bluestateprommer]

Listening to WRTI's Sunday relay of a past Philadelphia Orchestra concert, with LvB's Prometheus overture on now:

https://www.wrti.org/post/philadelphia-orchestra-wrti-yannick-trifonov-mozart-beethoven-bates-and-liszt